Joshua Schmidt Reacts to FORMER YU GI OH DESIGNER RATES NEW YU GI OH CARDS!

[@ethanfritch3706]

Dude smelled the runick engine and floated over to the video like a looney toons character floats to pie

[@aaronarceneaux1564]

the video had a runick allure to it

[@k-dawgHI]

My favorite thing ever is seeing Josh try to have a conversation about cards or the game in general and then twitch chat being the kids he has to babysit 🤣💀

[@monkeylemur]

The most baffling thing I've had to endure on his chat (basically the reason I don't ever go to Twitch in general), is that during his Worlds climb, I worried that he looked tired near the end of his 2nd day of grinding. That's literally all I said, like man, he looks tired. His chat got so fucking angry, like 5 of them instantly tagging me going CHATTING and throwing all sorts of aggressive emojis. That's when I realized these people are there to see an angry pierced bull caged in an arena. It's not out of some menial entertainment.

[@capolol5976]

​@@monkeylemur twitch chat is like a hive mind that only has half a braincell that has to be shared between every individual, it's the same for almost every streamer for some reason.

[@TheCroatia7]

@@capolol5976 explain what individual with more than 0.5 braincells is able to watch other people play, watch or exist (thats streaming for you) 5 hours a day. I know ppl with jobs, kids or obligations can't

[@SDREHXC]

This is pretty much every interaction between someone who is an expert in their field and people who have a passing interest as a hobby or even less background.

[@beegyoshi1685]

@@SDREHXC he was wrong for rollback for sure tho, the card breaks once per turn for traps and deletes costs as well. This limits future traps significantly more than he thinks, it is not a problem of "just do not print turn skips" at that point. There is a line that exists (i don't know where exactly) between a card good with rollback or broken with rollback and it is way before neither player can special summon from their hand, deck or extra deck. Trap cards that are closer to that line on the broken with rollback side are perfectly fine without rollback and rollbacks existence prevents a lot of those types of cards from being printed. So TL;DR rollback's existence prevents konami from printing individually good traps because those are bound to be bonkers with rollback

[@cyber5787]

"Joshua Schmidt Reacts to..." more like "Joshua Schmidt trying to convince Konami to leave Fountain alone"

[@pableitor2009]

IMO ty-phon is peak card design and perfect as it is. It is a strong card but not oppresive, is mostly used as a reactive play than proactive. Able to lift its own weight and more but cannot win the game on itself. Is always available in the ED but is good only against certain types of deck and gamestates. The fact that such a well designed card is not being played right now speaks how unbalanced things are in the meta.

[@oppof-iq7mf]

Or some people just don't know how to use Ty-phon.

[@maniachd324]

@@oppof-iq7mfno Ty-phon simply isn‘t good right now

[@Kintaku]

Agreed. Pretty much perfect design

[@r3zaful]

because you guys ban the cards that is supposed to be countered by it

[@Kintaku]

@@r3zaful that’s not really the case though. Both Baronne and Savage Dragon are both legal in Master Duel and Ty Phon still doesn’t do enough in the current meta. And that’s without the Fiendsmith cards.

[@randommaster06]

TCG Design Team: It'd be cool if you could platy a deck that felt like Dark Souls. OCG Design Team: It'd be cool if you could play a deck with 25 out-of-engine hand traps.

[@BaxsStudios]

Man If print policy wouldnt be so bad in the tcg Im sure they would run yugioh so much better. Almost everd tcg archetype is immensely unique.

[@MrGshinobi]

joshua showing up any time runick is mentioned

[@Corey91666]

You are missing 1 thing about theory and reality regarding rollback. The moment you can theorize about insane possibilities you will end up regarding these cards when designing new ones. And thats happening already anyway for even weaker cards. You dont make cards in a vacuum unless you want many situations with emergency banlists.

[@lmr4403]

Ty-phon without the summon limitation would be a possible instant zeus with every single 1 monster no matter what monster.

[@MarioLopez-xs3vc]

Yeah, that would be a little TOO insane, considering how crazy a "hard made" TY-PHON can potentially go in the one deck that can set it up consistently(Centur-Ion). Even just hard making things like Seven Sins or Zeus itself can be huge for outing boards when considering things like Nightmare Pain and Cranium Burst that can force you to ram into things and die before you can get past the Battle Phase.

[@abcrx32j]

A 2900atk link 1 that bounces one card and puts a monster in the GY, nah

[@minepool4343]

​@@abcrx32jnot that insane considering we are assuming that you are going second

[@lolfreedom6254]

has anyone been mayakashi locked by this card? Me when I've won/topped 4 regionals this year playing VW mayakashi locking people

[@egggge4752]

Normal diviner -> send herald -> deviner lv 6 -> herald search mikanko ohime -> ohime search the mikanko spell that summons ohime -> summon ohime with the spell -> 2 level 6 -> beatrice -> beatrice send transaction rollback -> opponents draw phase -> beatrice send any trap with linger floodgate -> activate transaction rollback If you draw diviner you just need 3 summons to basically win the game.

[@BlackBeartic229]

I haven't but i've always been a hater of the Mayakashi trap since it was revealed in OCG way back because I knew a card like that had nothing good to come from it's existence. And look at that, i'm right. Toxic in generic decks due to Beatrice and also possibly lowers the chance of Mayakashi itself getting cracked support to become good down the road. Literally a lose lose for all involved. Should just ban the card alongside Beatrice tbh

[@bl00by_]

Tbf that only works because of beatrice.

[@lolfreedom6254]

@@bl00by_ oh yea ofc, card should have been banned long ago

[@four-en-tee]

​@@bl00by_ Right, Beatrice is the problem card

[@51msY]

Josh undervalueing rollback so he can keep it in his paleo deck

[@ducky36F]

Runick and Paleo defense hour 😆

[@Gilgamesh-em6ru]

with that argument about Transaction rollback Isolde should have never been banned. the 2 decks that were using her the best in the modern era (that means no Gouki gumblar hand loop for the idiots that want to bring it up) were equipt based decks, Infernoble and Mikanko, it didn't limit any creative design on the entire warrior archetype and those decks were never a big problem in the tournaments they were meta. Fiendsmith ends on more oppressive boards especially now with Baronne banned.

[@BaxsStudios]

But a card like Isolde is always accessible from the extra extremly generic and makes it difficult to design warrior decks because one slightly oversight and it breaks the whole subtype. Isolde maybe not a problem by now but it is extremly problematic espacilly for future card design

[@Gilgamesh-em6ru]

@@BaxsStudios ever since isolde got banned they have not released a single good warrior theme deck. even when she was legal a lot of warrior centric decks had zero use for isolde. why play an FTK isolde deck when Gimmick puppet is the best modern FTK deck or Tenpai to OTK going 2nd.

[@BaxsStudios]

@@Gilgamesh-em6ru yeha and? Isolde still is a bad designed card thats prone to break warriors just because Konami decided after banning not to release a good warrior atchetype doesn't mean this card is even in the slightyest bit ok or not one card away to be an absolute problem again. Isolde is an enabler searching a warrior specialling a warrior and milling equips that also can have graveyard effects that card alone can go plus infinite. Ive seen enough whacky ftks, handloops, unbreakable boards and such that could be made only because of this card and rather to ban all powerful cards she enables its better to keep her banned. Isolde is right there where she belongs. She would need an errata to be fine again like needing to noble Knights to make but till then she should stay banned.

[@Gilgamesh-em6ru]

@@BaxsStudios I hate to break it to you but all those whacky FTKS or combos absolutely do not need isolde. Isolde actually makes those combos worse since she's one of the biggest choke points for them. also decks trying to do those never do well in any major event due to how fragile and bad those combos are. isolde doesn't need an errata. modern combo decks do way more than Isolde could without needing to make the deck you use her in worse by playing more equips. like I stated before Fiendsmith and new engine end on more oppressive boards with less bricks. with fiendsmith none of them even being bricks.

[@lmr4403]

Transaction Rollback is making a turn for toxic again in md now: Runick (monstergate/mill whatever) Junk Collector+transaction Rollback ftk.

[@egggge4752]

??? You know that the meta tcg decks can just make appolusa + beatric -> send any lingering floodgate trap + transaction rollback... right now? Through like 5 handtraps? Idk why you stressin about some rogue baby gimmick deck that dies to 1 interruption when actual meta decks in md can just make beatrice.

[@lmr4403]

@@egggge4752 I'm not talking about competitiveness, I am talking about toxic usage in Master tier.

[@ct1296]

Rollback isn’t the problem card here though. If the deck was good they’d hit the Earthbound trap. As is, there are plenty of other FTKs that are more consistent, and even those aren’t remotely good. Rollback is only as good as the traps it copies. Just because an FTK-enabling trap needs a bunch of setup, and rollback cheats that setup, it doesn’t mean that the ftk-enabling trap should exist in the first place.

[@lmr4403]

​@@ct1296 Again, I don't make any judgement about Transaction Rollback itself. I just say that it is currently used in a toxic way in md. The earthbound immortal trap would also never see play if Transaction Rollback didn't exist. This does not mean I want Transaction Rollback per se banned, but to the very least an awareness that Transaction Rollback is not "doing only cool things".

[@PrototypePlatform]

josh: transaction isnt an issue, just stop printing cards that turn skip. yugioh's history: halq, barrage, isolde, gumblar, firewall, cyberstein, magical scientist, curious, sanctifier/expulsion, etc, etc its A L W A Y S the enabler, *NOT* the card itself. dont like turn skips in random decks? dont print generic enablers.

[@some2043]

enablers are never an issue we just have too many crybabies ,anyway not even og patch of toons deserve a whole turn skip only some parts like no gy effects/monsters with exactly x trait can't be activated/ effects of spells and traps can only be activated on the activation of the card but never a summon limit ,a no spell/trap activation and certainly no handrip

[@BlackBeartic229]

The cards shouldn't exist anyways. Turn skips have 0 place in the game. You got people using Beatrice to pitch the Mayakashi trap, like yeah Beatrice should've been banned years ago but why the fuck did Mayakashi get a trap like that anyways. It's just shit design all around and people only say nothing about it because the deck itself isn't relevant. Sometimes it's both the enabler and the card, both can be equally a problem and i'm lowkey tired of people saying a card is healthy because the deck it's in is bad (Mayakashi, Harpie, etc)

[@glrbrasil]

Both sides can be a problem, there’s no rule to evaluate it

[@sammydray5919]

Or and hear me out here, DONT PRINT TURN SKIPS. No one likes them. The game does NOT need them.

[@rinnepy]

If Maybe these 'enablers' didn't have any toxic cards they 'enable' maybe they wouldn't be as toxic as they are. Like you know, gimmick puppet

[@prideofjustice994]

Ofcourse the Runick defender would defend Transaction 🙂

[@TURBO1000YuGiOh]

Runick cards as pseudo instant fusions is a great point!

[@TsunRaichu]

Anyone who defends Transaction Rollback has never had to go second into it copying Earthbound Release

[@Ibrouprofen]

Thats cuz 99.999% of players have never even seen earthbound release, much less activated, even less copied through rollback

[@Kintaku]

Really cool to hear Matt’s perspective on all this. Also just interesting how well he can intuit a card’s use cases just based on his experience. Just highlights his quality as a card designer.

[@TheCroatia7]

Josh shitting on every possible opinion of MBT is what I need on these rainy mondays

[@Hic_Sunt_Leones-o7v]

If I could afford SP I would play it in Melffys like I do on MD. That is as a surprise for my opponent using Merry Melffys or Melffy of the Forest and another beast to break boards(not even necessarily going second just mid game).

[@lmr4403]

"very slow control deck", say stun without being allowed to say "stun".

[@lmr4403]

Correction: "very glacially slow control deck"

[@monkeylemur]

Stun uses continuous effects that lock certain actions. Not all Runicks play like that. Naturia Runick did stun with Naturia Beast occasionally, but you got there by plussing off of the new Naturias like Camellia and the bug while controlling the board with Synchros that also plus and just with the utility of the Runick cards. So it's a control deck with stun elements Runick Stun's pure purpose is to just draw floodgates and prevent their destruction with Runick. While they can eventually close it out with enough stun to just wait out a skipped battle phase into an attack, the win condition is ultimately to flip the floodgates, which make it a stun deck with some control elements.

[@ducky36F]

Playing against Runick combo decks really isn’t the same as playing against stun though.

[@lmr4403]

@@monkeylemur They were talking at that point about Runick stun, they before and after also talked about combo-runicks which I also don't have issues with.

[@JackHugeman]

Nah Rollback should be banned.

[@petiteexplication6249]

The rollback argument is not good what if we get another lab or dinomorphia support that sends traps from deck as cost or whatever crazy effect

[@bl00by_]

Just don't print those kind of cards, it's not that hard

[@petiteexplication6249]

Just dont print cards or archetypes that support trap decks ? What kind of argument is that we already have a RDA support that foolish a normal trap for free im sorry but these are weak arguments

[@anphony3760]

@@bl00by_ and there you go, you've limited design for any trap related deck, congrats.

[@bl00by_]

@@anphony3760 Not really, they could just word cards like EEV and then they can't be copied by rollback. Konami just needs to get more creative when it comes to card design.

[@anphony3760]

@@bl00by_ you're going an extra step to keep the card in check and bloating the text of cards when their activation requirements should be all that's needed.

[@Lucky2DAmax]

Josh is officially the most quiet and well mannered stream eater ive ever seen

[@magician1231]

New effect for the runick fountain: Summon Josh to any video that this card is mentioned

[@darkvictory21]

As far as transaction rollback goes i play 3 copies in lightsworn and it goes pretty hard. Beatrice is not needed. Looping copies with omega

[@josecolon120891]

That’s one deck that mills. Outside of lightsworn or tear it’s not gonna be very playable without Beatrice

[@darkvictory21]

@@josecolon120891 it is, pilgrim reaper, bujin kagu, minerva and zombie vampire. you mill nearly 20 cards if you can go through plays summoning these guys, beatrice isn't needed if your whole deck is in the grave

[@eu4um]

josh took that rollback segment WAY too personal and is also objectively wrong Rollback should NEVER have been printed

[@Ragnarok540]

Yet it was printed and the most it has done is make Paleo relevant again. In whatever scenario you are thinking, this is not the problem card.

[@corbinmerla1211]

⁠@@Ragnarok540did people think about Tyrants Neptune in the same way up until the lyrilusc fusion dropped? Nothing good ever comes from an effect that copies an effect of another card, especially if it can copy just any other card. In archetype effects that do this can be controlled, it’s easier not have unintentional busted effects. Something like Tyrants Neptune and Rollback are open to all effect monsters and all normal traps, there’s a crazy amount of space for Rollback and Neptune to become degenerative.

[@wo1fzilla]

Transaction rollback is cancer

[@TrevorRox6]

I went to my first locals and got Mayakashi locked and Harpie Feather Storm and apparently it targets the player so Sangen Summoning no longer works

[@ovelhadogelo]

Of course you would react to that. It's fate at this point, and funny to see you chatting about the Runick section. 👀

[@mthsdcs]

28:35 I wonder if it would be easier to address the issue of going first decks being too good, by going forward into Master Rule 6, rather than trying to address it through ban lists and card design.

[@TheBluntsmith69]

I hope they don’t ban I:P while there are so many decks splashing unchained to summon it anyway

[@xxartemisxx1982]

I was arguing with prople about rollback and I see the same problem in this comment section. The problem is Fiendsmith -> Beatrice being a free of cost, splashable engine for meta decks. This is the only thing enabling Rollback abuse. So the problem is not Rollback, its Beatrice being way too generic and sending any 2 cards. Al full power, rollback did almost nothing for Labrynth in this meta going by its 1% representation. Ban Beatrice, and rollback would only give trap decks a much needed boost instead kf being abusable in top meta decks

[@brandenlucero]

Matt Bell of Wreckless Eating? 🌝

[@jtm94]

Josh is so based.

[@Ragnarok540]

Fountain needed one extra restriction to make it not synergize as much with floodgates. Something like, you can't activate the effect to draw cards if you have activated traps during this duel, also your trap effects are negated for the rest of this duel.

[@WelfareCenter]

Shouldn't have made Six Samurai Shien and Baronne De Fleur

[@djkilla0655]

Man f runick cards I hate those cards

[@b4sh936]

All the homies in here hate them

[@qwertyg3666]

I agree on sp. Sp is great card design unfortunately ip makes it very unfun and unfair. I would love to see ip banned.

[@Freshy2811]

josh for lead card designer!

[@NewtBannner]

Ban Fountain!

[@alessandrorampa5536]

Plz josh go teach komoney dudes what good card design is

[@zell245]

Yeah haha, Josh has nothing to do with random tcg exclusive handcrafted Paleo support. Haha happy coincidence! Avert your eyes, loyal commenter. Runick Fountain to 3 next banlist!

[@MrGshinobi]

he doesn't know what good card design is, if he was in charge all decks would play like paleo and runick so combo decks wouldn't exist and yugioh would lose it's identity and become basically just magic

[@dinar4331]

@@MrGshinobi based, he's hired

[@hermitxIII]

@@dinar4331 THIS!

[@some2043]

you are a shame on every dinar ever made ​@@dinar4331

[@alexandergeorgiev74]

Fountain should be banned 😞

[@ducky36F]

18:45 also no mbt does not play yugioh 😆

[@qwertyg3666]

ip needs banned asap.